1213/Battleground: Protihex 4 -5

Cast of Characters: | Prowl, Onslaught, Sky Lynx, Grimlock, Vortex, Goth, 135

**Goth has posed:**
     The large, black Mech-bat is soaring over head, above most the back and forth fire below from the raging battlefield, he was sending Autobot locations and coordinates back to his teammates. "<<I've spotted Autobot units Prowl, Grimlock, and Sky Lynx, It's highly recommended that Vortex, you send out the drones to at least stall them out for a time to allow Sixshot to move in.>>" He'd report.

      He'd then get himself positioned high enough in the sky. "<<I'm going to ensure that Sky Lynx cannot unleash that blasted flamethrower of his onto us.>>" He'd hiss as he went after the shuttle that was high in the air.

**Sixshot (135) has posed:**
Sixshot looks out at the sieging Autobots as shots impact the walls. Checking the incoming signals his optics narrow as he looks skywards, "<<Moving out.>>" Taking to the air he speeds towards the incoming shuttle. Once close he scans for the most likely weak points, moving in a attempt to impact with Sky Lynx as hard as he can.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex flies into the area "Right. I'll be taking defenses." he flies to a turret and takes his place preparing them to fire. "So lets see who makes me mad right now. Sky Lynx? I choose you." and he lets the drones to show their fury!

**Onslaught has posed:**
Onslaught takes aim at Sky Lynx, using his own weapons rather than those of the base. "A valient attempt, Vortex, but let me show you how it's done," he says, putting the cart before the tractor-drone, as is his wont.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl is at the spearhead of the Autobot offensive once more, coordinating his troops from an air transport hovering above his forces. << Autobots, focus the defenses. Grimlock, keep Sixshot occupied. >>

    And, of course, as the tactic proved effective last time, he dispatches the barrier-crippling coolant toward the outer walls, but this time it's a series of flying drones that divebomb toward it with payloads of the compound instead of operations teams.

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
<<Well, I'd say I've done well to draw their attention... you'd best capitalize on it while you can. Not certain how long they'll be distracted by my imposing presence, after all.>> The 'shuttle' that is Lynx is...rather adept, it seems, at teaching the importance of shooting at where one is going and not where they currently are, because shot after shot just zip right on by and are swiftly ignored.

<<Sensors are picking up...let's see... Goth, Sixshot, Onslaught, Vortex... hmm. You'd think this place is important to them or something... Either way! Here we go.>>

Speaking of the six-changer and Goth... "You two seem to be in my airspace... if you'll excuse me, I've work to do and would rather not feel overly crowded, yes?"

He transforms, spinning to let his tail sweep through the area to, quite literally, clear his airspace. <<All clear up here and ready to bring down the walls on your mark.>>

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth misses and curses loudly, one would think it was from the pain from where he was knocked from his trajectory, and perhaps some of it was, but he'd merely let them think that. Getting himself upright in the air was easy enough, and If it wasn't for the fact Goth was using his wings to fly, he'd be pinching his nose bridge at this moment seeing what he did.

      He needed to think fast, this was already a poor situation, that was likely about to get much, much worse if they didn't. "<<A warning, I'm about to severely drain myself.>>" He'd warn to his teammates. He'd then get high in the air and intake a deep vent, and let out a rather familiar, high volume screech.

**Sixshot (135) has posed:**
Sixshot quickly raises his arms as he braces himself from the impact. Quickly activating jets to stop himself from flying off, "You don't own the whole sky! Arrogant beast!" He quickly charges through the sky again drawing his sword as he aims for another weakpoint, aiming to stab into it.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex swivel those turrets towards the bots again. "This time I think Im goinna.. yeah. you're all getting a present." Witht aht he fires at the garoup, laughing the whole time.

**Onslaught has posed:**
Onslaught feels a certain amount of pride as Vortex manages to fire the base defenses and strike all three of the Autobot attackers. "Good job, Vortex! Keep up the heat, Decepticons! They are not invincible! We \*can\* prevail!"

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl gets peppered by the drones while attempting to reorient himself after Goth's sonic scream. Still, he's far from down for the count. As the drones deliver the coolant payload, he prepares a bit of the -opposite- effect, some fire for their trouble. An incendiary grenade is fired from a shoulder-mounted launcher, following the most optimal trajectory to hopefully do maximum damage and set as many things on fire as possible!

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Sky Lynx grunts as...well, it was bound to happen, luck ran dry and everyone learned how to aim for the most part. And to make things worse, his targeting systems were alerting him to abnormalities in the friend-or-foe designations...and more than a few other systems are showing signs of...peculiar behavior as well. Although, that armor holds remarkably well and he doesn't seem to really care that there's actual hits landing.

That's no good.

Pulling up, he gets himself some altitude and takes time to transform again, getting his auxiliary weapon systems dusted off. Fine, if the systems can't figure things out...then maybe it's just a 'hope for the best' sort of moment. <<Recalibrating targetting systems... apologies in advance, yes?>>

**Grimlock has posed:**
Oh! THERE'S Grimlock.

 The shout of the Dinobot is heard across the battlefield, and is probably a good indication that the Decepticons may want to have at least one person be firing at him. He seems to fire off a Rocket Launcher that was hulked onto his shoulder, his target? Onslaught.

 BOOM!

 The shot rings out at the enemy, but will it find its purchase?

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth vents heavily and grins seeing things quickly turning in their favour, however now a red light is flashing on his ear, he doesn't get much time before he finds himself falling again, this time on fire, and leaving a trail of energon and black smoke behind him, alarms blaring in his audials.

      Despite being barely conscious he'd spin himself to correct his path and went right for the one responsible for his pain, and attempted to sink his fangs into his fuel lines.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex takes a strong hit but conitnuges to attack, cackling "Not gonna take us down that easy. Here. Have some turrets" he presses the maurader turret button again and starts to hum a song. Hes having a lovely time.

**Sixshot (135) has posed:**
Sixshot pulls his blade out of Sky Lynx and quickly flies back as the shuttle takes off. He quickly switches his sword for his blasters as he attempts to track the shuttles flightpath. Taking aim he lets loose with a double burst of sonics.

**Onslaught has posed:**
Onslaught chuckles as the battle seems to be going in their favor -- and against three of the Autobots' heavier hitters, to boot! Today is a good day. <<Looks like we might have to rescue the Autobots from themselves,>> he tightbeams to his fellow Decepticons. <<And Goth, of course.>> Since Goth is already taking a bite out of Prowl, Onslaught turns his attentions to Grimlock.

**Grimlock has posed:**
So, the shot literally blew up in Grimlock's face. Not the first time its happened to him, picking up shit off the ground kinda sucks in that instance. But Grimlock does listen to Sky Lynx as he receives an order, and he moves to help Prowl break apart the fortifications.

 Hopefully.

 He aims his weapon at it, and fires. Hopefully it doesn't explode this time in his face, though he is taking some damage, Grimlock's not worried about it.

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Sky Lynx checks, double-checks, and then triple-checks his systems. Apologies to Prowl will come later, there's a fight underway. He shakes everything off and ignores the hint of smoke trailing behind him as he dives towards the fortifications to throw himself bodily into them, transforming right before impact to lead with his shoulder in a proper body-slam to add to the force behind Grimlock's assault. <<Good job, Grimlock... just like that.>>

**Prowl has posed:**
    "Argh!" Prowl takes a pretty solid hit from the marauder turrets, forces him into cover. << Hnn...focus the barriers... >> This wasn't going well. But by his analysis ofr the current state of the base's defenses they might just come down in time. He presses on for the time being, firing a missile at the defenses.

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex uses the strategy that works! Keep firing! He cackles. "Gonna take you all out no problem." he doesnt care that hte defenses are attacked, rocking with them like hes peacefully back at base. Its just another day at the 'office' for tex. "If you guys would fall over that'd be great."

**Sixshot (135) has posed:**
Sixshots optics narrow as he looks out across the battlefield, marking the position of each Autobot. Checking his t-cog he grumbles as its still locked. Spinning the blasters in his hands he quickly turns and fires at all visible targets.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth wipes the energon form his mouth that he'd partly siphoned from Prowl and glares, he knows the base is loss, might as well get a last use out of it, he'd quickly back away and fly his way up onto the turrets, and join Vortex in firing on those below, he'd sound the alarms to also get most of their personnel out of here.

      He'd then cough up some energon from his wounds. "<<Tsk.. Base is a loss..>>" He'd grumble over the communications link.

**Onslaught has posed:**
Onslaught laughs at Vortex's request. <<If we must leave, fine, but the Autobots had to work for this victory, at least,>> he tightbeams to the others as he prepares to, once again, take aim at Grimlock.

**Sky Lynx has posed:**
Sky Lynx glances over at Prowl, then to the fortifications. Win the fight... though that doesn't mean one can't have at least a little fun with things, right? He rips a piece of the fortifications free, again throwing himself against the structure to further weaken it before hurling the debris at the first Decepticon to catch his attention.

All due apologies to Goth... here's a souvenir, though.

**Grimlock has posed:**
Upon Sky Lynx tearing down the defenses, Grimlock howls a war cry that once again is heard across the field. Though then Grimlock is attacked by Onslaught. Angered by this, Grimlock transforms and fires his Cannon at him!

 "GRIMLOCK CRUSH PUNY DECEPTICON!"

 Becuase Grimlock assumes everyone is puny compared to him. Even when proven wrong. Sorry.

**Prowl has posed:**
    Prowl fires a missile, and gets even more return fire for his trouble. He looks down at his arm, where fuel is spewing freely from Goth's bite. He grunts, retreating further even as the base's walls come down with a crash. << Autobots...grrhkk...move in and take possession of the city. Take any stragglers into custody and prepare them for transport to Garrus-1. >>

**Vortex has posed:**
Vortex rolls out of his turret "Right. Well its been a pleasure but I really gotta go. Goth you need a ride?" he transforms and flies over to the 'firebat'.

**Goth has posed:**
     Goth is sent crashing to the ground in a blaze of energon, fire, smoke, and building dabries! and for a minute, it very much looks like wasn't about to get back up by how the energon around him was pooling... But SOMEHOW he gets himself back up, cackling madly despite the loss of the base, taking down Prowl was definitely a satisfactor for him.

      Despite the fact he shouldn't even be moving, (And the fire was likely going to take him out half-way back to Kaon) he starts making a limped retreat to behind their lines.

      THere was.. a grin from Goth as Vortex came and offered him a lift, and who was he to reject? After all, he likely wasn't going to make it back awake. "Most ap..ap..appreciated."

**Onslaught has posed:**
Onslaught makes his preparations to retreat. <<They'll be taking prisoners,>> he radios the others. Because of course they will, they're Autobots. <<Retreat, get back to our territory at all costs. Do not accept their false mercy.>>

**Sixshot (135) has posed:**
Sixshot looks down at Prowls unconscious body and slowly takes aim for the mechs head. He pulls it back as he says, "This is not over." Any Autobot drone attempting to get close are immediately shotcas he flies off.